Defendant Jordan Grocott drove at more than 100mph and the wrong way up the M6 as he tried to give police the slip.

The 23-year-old was driving a Volkswagen Golf on the northbound carriageway between junctions 13 and 14 when police discovered it was uninsured at 3am on May 29 last year. They pulled the car over but as the officer approached the driver the defendant sped off.

“He accelerated in excess of 100 mph before turning off the lights and he swerved between the lanes. The vehicle swerved into the exit slip road for Doxey Works but then continued on the northbound carriageway."

Police abandoned the chase due to workmen on the motorway near junction 15 but they employed a stinger device at the junction.

However the defendant performed a U-turn and drove north along the southbound carriageway. He drove the wrong way up the M6 for three miles before exiting at Keele Services.

He then took police on a chase down Three Mile Lane at speeds of between 50mph and 70mph.

Mr Wilson said: “He went round a roundabout the wrong way at high speed and went round another the wrong way with his lights off as he travelled towards Newcastle."

The Golf collided with a wall and came to a standstill on Keele Road and four men got out and ran off. Three tried to scale a fence. Two jumped it but the third, the defendant, could not get to the fence in time.

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Judge Glenn said: “When the police stopped you, you took off. Your driving from there on was appalling. You got up to 110mph on the M6 and turned off your lights. You weaved in and out of light traffic and left at junction 15. But you took the decision to get back on the motorway and went in the wrong direction between junctions 15 and 16.

“CCTV showed near misses with other vehicles, who must have been alarmed to see your vehicle coming in the opposite direction.